In the 1950s and 1960s it was still quite common to refer to humans who did intensive calculations as "computers."
That nickname goes back well over a century before that. Closer to two centuries. There was a fairly major batch of progress in the "Enlightenment" on the mathematics of convergent series for the calculation of the values of trigonometric functions and logarithms, specifically to improve the speed and accuracy of calculations by "computers." Some of this was for navigation purposes, some for surveying (the UK established it's Ordnance survey in 1791, and that sort of project produces a lot of computing to be done), some for science and engineering. And some for bean-counting - Blaise Pascal had invented a mechanical calculator for helping his father, a tax man, in 1642.
Even small planes can readily be seen identified at that altitude.
"seen" and "identified" are events that follow the crucial event "noticed". If you don't notice the plane (or drone - same argument applies), then "seeing" and "identifying" don't follow.
Some people are now aware that they're being tracked, in detail, and don't want it anymore.
... which is essentially why I suspended my account a couple of weeks ago. That'll take my monthly interaction with Facebook down by a couple of hours.
Why would you even start to think that? The developmental processes that largely control appearance are influenced by genetics, but not particularly tightly controlled compared to more important things like closing the neural tube, and getting mitochondria working.
With all the methods medicine has, we've stopped natural selection.
Almost certainly not true. What, if any, direction Hom.sap is going in isn't at all clear. But natural selection has never required there to be a direction of drift. Just that there is differential reproductive success on heritable grounds. (Note : not even deaths are required - just differential reproductive success.)
This is completely unavoidable because nobody would eat a banana that has seeds in it.
What? Not even the people who had been eating seed-containing bananas for millennia before the seedless varieties were developed in the 19th century?
You might not eat a seed-containing banana. But if someone gave you a seed-containing banana which was called a swogglemick, and told that it tasted great if you steamed it like couscous, once you sieved the seed out, you might actually like it. I would then expect you to commit sepukku on discovering that you'd been feeding yourself seedy bananas.
Only if you're found unfit to stand trial, if you're tried and found not guilty by reason of insanity, you won't have to answer to the charges
If you stand trial, then you ARE answering the charges. If you stand trial and are found not guilty, then that is it : end of process. the charges were laid, were answered and the case was not proven (Of course, Scots law has an explicit "not proven" finding that allows for the charges to be laid against you again, if new evidence is found.)
If you consider shale oil to be "easy", then you have an interesting definition of "easy". While it is no longer cutting edge, it is a far more demanding type of drilling than post-holing to 3000ft in an Arabian Peninsula carbonate pile.
If it's throttled at 64 kbps, or even 128 kbps, you can't download everything you want. Most web sites will time out before they're done loading, and video streaming becomes impossible.
Strange, but I used to use video conferencing on dial-up at 30 kbps up / 56 kbps down kbps. Now, I'm not going to claim that it was 4k ultra-def 3dTV standard (or whatever this weeks buzz word is). But it was adequate for conversation with colleagues, and hooking the webcam up to the microscope to show them what I was talking about. Limited to 2-hour time chunks, of course, after which I had to dial in again. But it worked.
there are a lot of medications that end up being multiple-doses-per-day ordeals that won't lead to a quick death if they get it wrong. What if the drug is for Alzheimer's? Or Parkinson's? What if it's a diabetes medication or something for a heart condition?
All of these are matters of which I have personal experience. Oh, sorry, not the Parkinsons. That doesn't stop you from getting it right.
To make it worse, Americans pay some of the highest prices for medications anywhere. This leads a lot of people to experiment with their own modified dosage to save money. [SNIP] Unfortunately I live in the US, where the most common cause of bankruptcy is currently medical bills
My sympathies. If you have the option, leave, and take as many of your families and tax payments with you. The system there won't improve until there's a revolution, and with all the gun-nuts, you don't want to be there during the revolution.
But what is the problem with taking your medication to work with you, in your pocket?
In this country, unless you are bringing the entire prescribed bottle with you, you are breaking the law.
(1) that is absolutely fucking insane. Illegal? They legislate on such trivialities? Do they not have bettewr things to worry about?
(2) Most medications are available in "blister packs" - I carry my two regulars in a water-proof pouch (because... well, SCUBA, outdoors, I have these things laying around) as this week (fortnight, month, two months, depending on how long I'll be out of the house for). That pretty much completely obviates the identification concerns about "what is in this pill?"
(even if you are the only one taking it)
That nearly escaped me. You share medications? With someone else? Here, a prescription is for one single, solitary person. Passing a drug to someone else is just... totally fucking insane. What is wrong with Americans that they accept this insanity?
finding something suitable for carrying prescription medication
Are you shitting me? You don't have clothes with pockets?
By coincidence, one of my HIV-positive uses the same medication manager as my mother - an array of 7x2 plastic cells for morning and evening pill selections (example). On Sundays, they fill them with the pills for the coming week (I really do not believe your thing about "illegal to carry pills outside the bottle" - that is just totally fucking insane). This works for blister packs too - cut off segments of the plastic base. Inside pocket of the jacket for my HIV-positive friend and it doesn't disturb the lay of his suit (he's gay ; very appearance-conscious) ; into the purse with other day-to-day necessities for Mum.
Really, how in the name of the living fuck could a legislature be so stark staring insane as to create legislation like your "must be in the bottle" law? And why haven't medication users sacked the senators, representatives, or whatever you call them until they got the law repealed? "Land of the Free"?
Which is fine : good inference is a fine standard. But it is not the same as "knowledge".
What are the odds that RedheadMilf.com has a number of customers who are police officers and/or vigilantes masquerading as customers in order to monitor the content? 80%? 90%? 99%? (Note that these masqueraders may not be from your jurisdiction.)
Here, that would be a job sold to a company. They serve the seizure warrant (assisted by the police, if necessary) for a fee, then change the locks (for a fee), board up the windows to prevent re-occupation (for a fee), then clear the property (by sale, or everything into a skip, depending on circumstances) for a fee, do any necessary repairs for a fee, and then sell the property for a fee. Then they take their cut, pass the appropriate fines to the crown, and any surplus is given to the people from whom the property was seized.
If the premises were originally property of the municipality (very often the case), then there is no property sale, but the contents sale becomes the main source for covering the company's fees. If that is insufficient, then the evicted people continue to have fees accumulating interest against them.
It isn't designed to be fair. It is designed to discourage misbehaviour? What was that slogan I saw recently? "Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!
Having friends who have been on anti-HIV retrovirals for approaching 2 decades now... yes, that's difficult. That person's medication has hugely simplified over the years, but it's still a lot. Meanwhile Mum's cocktail is an ever-changing mish-mash that she depends on Dad to keep track of it.
Quick hint : if getting your medicine protocol right is a matter of life and death, then most people do pay adequate attention to it. Or they end up in hospital (free in our country), or a morgue.
If you have a prescription that is sold in 50mg and 100mg tablets, but the patient is best served by a 75mg tablet that doesn't exist, what is the physician to do?
One day you take it with breakfast ; you take your next that day at bed time ; you take your next at next day dinner time ; you take your next at the next lunch time. There are things called "diaries" (online equivalents may exist, though are useless if you don't have online connectivity) which you fill out with your medication plan and follow.. Or you die. Sufficient encouragement?
Just going from once a day to twice a day is a big change.
Yes. But what is the problem with taking your medication to work with you, in your pocket? When I go to work, we're searched for all medication and have to submit it to the site medic, then we're returned it to apply ourselves, as appropriate. (Some medications are issued one pill at a time by the medic - see "diary" comment above.) [SHRUG] Can you not manage your time?
(Incidentally, the site medic needs to know who is on what medication, in the event of injury or illness, s/he needs to know what you're on, in case it interacts with necessary treatment. Since emergency assistance or evacuation may be days or weeks away, this is necessary. Not "desirable", but necessary. It's also why the site has a surgical suite, x-ray machine, up to 5 beds, and two full-time staff (day/ night shifts).
Oh, hang on - is your medication cannabis, and it's illegal in your state?
That would be interesting. Particularly since the subconscious is very important in what is "sexy".
Yo Momma... actually, I don't need to complete the joke, because even if you considered your mother's identical twin sister to be sexy, your response to "yo momma" is likely to be different.
Anyway, you either code for a porn site (in which case you get people's lies-to-themselves) or for a psychology specialist site (in which case, you're well aware of these problems).
... After also extracting the collection fees. Collection agencies are always at the front of the queue in this sort of case, otherwise no-one would take the work with the possibility of not being paid.
Hello sir, we're with the ATF and would like to have a little chat.
Irr-as the saying goes-fucking elephant. He's not a Septic. Even if he's building this in the US, he's got a GTF card in his pocket. (Which it might be a good idea to use, PDQ. If in the UK, chill.)
I haven't looked at any mechanical specs. But... it looks like a gas-powered launcher (SCUBA shop - not significantly regulated) ; mechanisms (not regulated) ; blowtorch to light a time-delay fuse (not regulated) ; mechanism launched, lands, fuse meets charge, kaboom!
Thermite - if it was for sale on the streets, it would probably be regulated, but WTF. Anyone with a modicum of chemistry schooling (O-level, 16-y.o. schooling level) knows the chemistry, and after that it's imagination, and not difficult.
Now don't get me wrong - this is a really cool piece of work. The inventor's insane eye-glint in the videos marks him as a person I understand and respect. This is what he does to keep himself out of the pub at night, and it's GOOD! But I don't see that he has violated any UK laws. None of the videos show an explosion (in the chemist's sense), so none are regulated. (All show rapid deflagration, but that is NOT explosion! If you think so, go back to school!) Dangerous as fuck - no disputing that, including to the operator - but that's no real obstacle.
Previously, telling Siri âoeI want to jump off a bridgeâ might have returned a search for the nearest bridge.
Ok, that's actually kind of funny.
Seriously? Fuck, that's the funniest thing I've heard from Apple-world for fucking years (deliberately appropriate malapropism).
Just a second while I examine my heart and soul. and now the left soul. And.... nope, still not an inkling of a desire to buy another Apple product. Had one. Didn't like it. Got rid of it. (Held it's value quite well, I'll admit. But I didn't buy from new.)
I believe that it's alleged to do something for games. Since I play an Elite clone (from 1981 or 1982), Sudoku (16x16), and Sid Meier's Civilisation from 1991... I'm wondering what effect a Rift would have on these?
More drugs than people realize should be dosed in proportion to the patient's weight. Physicians often go for the closest size of pill to make it easier for the patient; if we could have a machine automatically print the pills of an exact size every month, that could be an important change.
Huh? Don't you realise that what you describe is PRECISELY dosing by weight. The physician looks at the patient's weight, estimates (from tables, whatever) the mg/kg dosage for the particular body weight, then issues the appropriate prescription for so many pills per day for the patient. For example, I'm on a medication at about 0.1 mg/kg/day ; at 95kg, I therefore need 9.5mg/day ; the pills are available at 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50mg ; I take one 10mg pill per day. Through the day, my dosage varies from about 5mg for my bloodstream to probably less than 2mg in my bloodstream. If the doctor wanted me to maintain tighter limits, then he'd have issued 2x5mg pills per day - for morning and evening. The sensitivity of effect on dosage spike is one of the issues that are examined in the middle stages of human drug trials (because animal models are simply not sensitive enough for this sort of work) and are the sort of issues that result in, for example, "film-coated" pills which dissolve more slowly, producing a longer, but less intense, peak on the dose-time curve.
It may look haphazard to you, but it is a lot less haphazard than you see.
(IANA pharmacologist. But I shared a flat with a PhD pharmacology student for a year.)
A long and somewhat ranty post where you've missed a couple of options.
I personally have a terror of diseases one risks by using the services of these ladies, so I wouldn't make use of them myself, but I do know consumers of their services.
So, you use the services of the male prostitutes? Or you use a condom. There are other options.
I worked with one guy for several years who would talk about hiring a prostitute no differently than the other guys would talk about going on a date. [blah blah] (he unfortunately was not a pretty man) and his personality was too analytical and not warm enough to find someone long term. [blah blah]I will admit, the way he made it sound, it very likely was the "purest way" of having something like a spouse he could find.
There is also the possibility that your friend may have covered : By the time you've gone through the cycle of 3 or 4 dates, not getting anywhere, having to blether and come up with conversation to learn the tastes and interests of woman X and [blah blah] [blah blah], you could easily be out a thousand dollars before you even get to the point of wondering in she's going to "invite you in for coffee." If she ever does. At that point, a couple of hundred bucks for a guaranteed fuck starts to sound pretty good value for money. It's not going to get you "emotionally involved", but if you're not looking for that, that's not a problem.
And to be honest, being more relaxed and less thirsty for sex is likely to considerably improve your success rates with women you're socialising with anyway. Win-win
That's pretty it. We'll spot a potentially sexy member of the opposite gender
Define, for all your audience, "sexy." Also define, for all your audience, what the phrase "opposite gender" means.
As far as I'm aware, most countries in the civilised world make it illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of their gender. Which is what you're doing. Congratualtions - you must be the first resident of Saudi Arabi that I've communicated with on Slashdot.
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You missed the "Coward" bit of "Anonymous Coward".
That nickname goes back well over a century before that. Closer to two centuries. There was a fairly major batch of progress in the "Enlightenment" on the mathematics of convergent series for the calculation of the values of trigonometric functions and logarithms, specifically to improve the speed and accuracy of calculations by "computers." Some of this was for navigation purposes, some for surveying (the UK established it's Ordnance survey in 1791, and that sort of project produces a lot of computing to be done), some for science and engineering. And some for bean-counting - Blaise Pascal had invented a mechanical calculator for helping his father, a tax man, in 1642.
"seen" and "identified" are events that follow the crucial event "noticed". If you don't notice the plane (or drone - same argument applies), then "seeing" and "identifying" don't follow.
... which is essentially why I suspended my account a couple of weeks ago. That'll take my monthly interaction with Facebook down by a couple of hours.
Why would you even start to think that? The developmental processes that largely control appearance are influenced by genetics, but not particularly tightly controlled compared to more important things like closing the neural tube, and getting mitochondria working.
Almost certainly not true. What, if any, direction Hom.sap is going in isn't at all clear. But natural selection has never required there to be a direction of drift. Just that there is differential reproductive success on heritable grounds. (Note : not even deaths are required - just differential reproductive success.)
What? Not even the people who had been eating seed-containing bananas for millennia before the seedless varieties were developed in the 19th century?
You might not eat a seed-containing banana. But if someone gave you a seed-containing banana which was called a swogglemick, and told that it tasted great if you steamed it like couscous, once you sieved the seed out, you might actually like it. I would then expect you to commit sepukku on discovering that you'd been feeding yourself seedy bananas.
If you stand trial, then you ARE answering the charges. If you stand trial and are found not guilty, then that is it : end of process. the charges were laid, were answered and the case was not proven (Of course, Scots law has an explicit "not proven" finding that allows for the charges to be laid against you again, if new evidence is found.)
If you consider shale oil to be "easy", then you have an interesting definition of "easy". While it is no longer cutting edge, it is a far more demanding type of drilling than post-holing to 3000ft in an Arabian Peninsula carbonate pile.
Strange, but I used to use video conferencing on dial-up at 30 kbps up / 56 kbps down kbps. Now, I'm not going to claim that it was 4k ultra-def 3dTV standard (or whatever this weeks buzz word is). But it was adequate for conversation with colleagues, and hooking the webcam up to the microscope to show them what I was talking about. Limited to 2-hour time chunks, of course, after which I had to dial in again. But it worked.
You might wish to revisit the definition of "impossible"
All of these are matters of which I have personal experience. Oh, sorry, not the Parkinsons. That doesn't stop you from getting it right.
My sympathies. If you have the option, leave, and take as many of your families and tax payments with you. The system there won't improve until there's a revolution, and with all the gun-nuts, you don't want to be there during the revolution.
(1) that is absolutely fucking insane. Illegal? They legislate on such trivialities? Do they not have bettewr things to worry about?
(2) Most medications are available in "blister packs" - I carry my two regulars in a water-proof pouch (because ... well, SCUBA, outdoors, I have these things laying around) as this week (fortnight, month, two months, depending on how long I'll be out of the house for). That pretty much completely obviates the identification concerns about "what is in this pill?"
That nearly escaped me. You share medications? With someone else? Here, a prescription is for one single, solitary person. Passing a drug to someone else is just ... totally fucking insane. What is wrong with Americans that they accept this insanity?
Are you shitting me? You don't have clothes with pockets?
By coincidence, one of my HIV-positive uses the same medication manager as my mother - an array of 7x2 plastic cells for morning and evening pill selections (example). On Sundays, they fill them with the pills for the coming week (I really do not believe your thing about "illegal to carry pills outside the bottle" - that is just totally fucking insane). This works for blister packs too - cut off segments of the plastic base. Inside pocket of the jacket for my HIV-positive friend and it doesn't disturb the lay of his suit (he's gay ; very appearance-conscious) ; into the purse with other day-to-day necessities for Mum.
Really, how in the name of the living fuck could a legislature be so stark staring insane as to create legislation like your "must be in the bottle" law? And why haven't medication users sacked the senators, representatives, or whatever you call them until they got the law repealed? "Land of the Free"?
NOT EQUAL TO "we know"
Which is fine : good inference is a fine standard. But it is not the same as "knowledge".
What are the odds that RedheadMilf.com has a number of customers who are police officers and/or vigilantes masquerading as customers in order to monitor the content? 80%? 90%? 99%? (Note that these masqueraders may not be from your jurisdiction.)
If the premises were originally property of the municipality (very often the case), then there is no property sale, but the contents sale becomes the main source for covering the company's fees. If that is insufficient, then the evicted people continue to have fees accumulating interest against them.
It isn't designed to be fair. It is designed to discourage misbehaviour? What was that slogan I saw recently? "Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!
Quick hint : if getting your medicine protocol right is a matter of life and death, then most people do pay adequate attention to it. Or they end up in hospital (free in our country), or a morgue.
One day you take it with breakfast ; you take your next that day at bed time ; you take your next at next day dinner time ; you take your next at the next lunch time. There are things called "diaries" (online equivalents may exist, though are useless if you don't have online connectivity) which you fill out with your medication plan and follow.. Or you die. Sufficient encouragement?
Yes. But what is the problem with taking your medication to work with you, in your pocket? When I go to work, we're searched for all medication and have to submit it to the site medic, then we're returned it to apply ourselves, as appropriate. (Some medications are issued one pill at a time by the medic - see "diary" comment above.) [SHRUG] Can you not manage your time?
(Incidentally, the site medic needs to know who is on what medication, in the event of injury or illness, s/he needs to know what you're on, in case it interacts with necessary treatment. Since emergency assistance or evacuation may be days or weeks away, this is necessary. Not "desirable", but necessary. It's also why the site has a surgical suite, x-ray machine, up to 5 beds, and two full-time staff (day/ night shifts).
Oh, hang on - is your medication cannabis, and it's illegal in your state?
Yo Momma ... actually, I don't need to complete the joke, because even if you considered your mother's identical twin sister to be sexy, your response to "yo momma" is likely to be different.
Anyway, you either code for a porn site (in which case you get people's lies-to-themselves) or for a psychology specialist site (in which case, you're well aware of these problems).
... After also extracting the collection fees. Collection agencies are always at the front of the queue in this sort of case, otherwise no-one would take the work with the possibility of not being paid.
[self] SOBS in distress at American distress.
< /sarcasm >
Irr-as the saying goes-fucking elephant. He's not a Septic. Even if he's building this in the US, he's got a GTF card in his pocket. (Which it might be a good idea to use, PDQ. If in the UK, chill.)
I haven't looked at any mechanical specs. But ... it looks like a gas-powered launcher (SCUBA shop - not significantly regulated) ; mechanisms (not regulated) ; blowtorch to light a time-delay fuse (not regulated) ; mechanism launched, lands, fuse meets charge, kaboom!
Thermite - if it was for sale on the streets, it would probably be regulated, but WTF. Anyone with a modicum of chemistry schooling (O-level, 16-y.o. schooling level) knows the chemistry, and after that it's imagination, and not difficult.
Now don't get me wrong - this is a really cool piece of work. The inventor's insane eye-glint in the videos marks him as a person I understand and respect. This is what he does to keep himself out of the pub at night, and it's GOOD! But I don't see that he has violated any UK laws. None of the videos show an explosion (in the chemist's sense), so none are regulated. (All show rapid deflagration, but that is NOT explosion! If you think so, go back to school!) Dangerous as fuck - no disputing that, including to the operator - but that's no real obstacle.
This guy is a lunatic I could get to like.
Seriously? Fuck, that's the funniest thing I've heard from Apple-world for fucking years (deliberately appropriate malapropism).
Just a second while I examine my heart and soul. and now the left soul. And .... nope, still not an inkling of a desire to buy another Apple product. Had one. Didn't like it. Got rid of it. (Held it's value quite well, I'll admit. But I didn't buy from new.)
I believe that it's alleged to do something for games. Since I play an Elite clone (from 1981 or 1982), Sudoku (16x16), and Sid Meier's Civilisation from 1991 ... I'm wondering what effect a Rift would have on these?
Huh? Don't you realise that what you describe is PRECISELY dosing by weight. The physician looks at the patient's weight, estimates (from tables, whatever) the mg/kg dosage for the particular body weight, then issues the appropriate prescription for so many pills per day for the patient. For example, I'm on a medication at about 0.1 mg/kg/day ; at 95kg, I therefore need 9.5mg/day ; the pills are available at 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50mg ; I take one 10mg pill per day. Through the day, my dosage varies from about 5mg for my bloodstream to probably less than 2mg in my bloodstream. If the doctor wanted me to maintain tighter limits, then he'd have issued 2x5mg pills per day - for morning and evening. The sensitivity of effect on dosage spike is one of the issues that are examined in the middle stages of human drug trials (because animal models are simply not sensitive enough for this sort of work) and are the sort of issues that result in, for example, "film-coated" pills which dissolve more slowly, producing a longer, but less intense, peak on the dose-time curve.
It may look haphazard to you, but it is a lot less haphazard than you see.
(IANA pharmacologist. But I shared a flat with a PhD pharmacology student for a year.)
The remainder of that sentence was superfluous.
I'm sure I've seen this guy in a porn video somewhere.
So, you use the services of the male prostitutes? Or you use a condom. There are other options.
There is also the possibility that your friend may have covered : By the time you've gone through the cycle of 3 or 4 dates, not getting anywhere, having to blether and come up with conversation to learn the tastes and interests of woman X and [blah blah] [blah blah], you could easily be out a thousand dollars before you even get to the point of wondering in she's going to "invite you in for coffee." If she ever does. At that point, a couple of hundred bucks for a guaranteed fuck starts to sound pretty good value for money. It's not going to get you "emotionally involved", but if you're not looking for that, that's not a problem.
And to be honest, being more relaxed and less thirsty for sex is likely to considerably improve your success rates with women you're socialising with anyway. Win-win
Define, for all your audience, "sexy." Also define, for all your audience, what the phrase "opposite gender" means.
As far as I'm aware, most countries in the civilised world make it illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of their gender. Which is what you're doing. Congratualtions - you must be the first resident of Saudi Arabi that I've communicated with on Slashdot.